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Deputy Head of Engineering

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Engineering · Data
SPECIALISED AERIAL DATA ACQUISITION SERVICES
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Skills & Experience

Job roles: Head of Engineering
Experience level: Lead, Leadership
Core skills considered: Building Teams, Business Analysis, Business Development Strategy, Project Management
Other skills considered: Agile, Scrum, Technical Direction, Stakeholder Management

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Base salary: Undisclosed
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Employment type: Permanent
Remote working: On-site
Visa sponsorship: Not available

Job Description

The Deputy Head of Engineering is an operational, commercial and support leadership role serving as the "Down and In" engine room of the Engineering Department. Operating as the primary deputy to the Head of Engineering (HoE), this position takes complete ownership of day-to-day engineering support delivery, driving commercial productivity and efficiency, as well as cross-functional synchronisation.

As this is a newly created position within a growing organisation, the successful candidate must be highly adaptable and comfortable working with ambiguity, embracing an evolving set of Terms of Reference (TORs) as the role and department scale.

The core mandate of this role is to manage and drive the department's commercial output and internal operational rhythm. By taking responsibility for pricing, cost base management, overarching fleet strategy, the training pipeline, and core IT/management tools, the Deputy Head ensures that the engineering department executes seamlessly, with a key emphasis on efficiency.

Crucially, this operational shield frees the Head of Engineering to focus purely on "Up and Out" strategic positioning and configuring the department for its next phase of corporate scaling. The role also acts as a mentor, leveraging professional & commercial experience to coach managers across the department hierarchy.


Key Responsibilities

1. Commercial Leadership & Operational Governance

  • Commercial Productivity and Efficiency: Drive the commercial productivity of the Engineering department, taking direct responsibility for pricing strategies and the proactive management of the departmental cost base. With a responsibility to drive efficiency and continuous improvement in output.
  • Financial Risk Management: Act as the primary risk manager for the department, proactively identifying, tracking, and mitigating financial vulnerabilities while capitalising on commercial opportunities to protect the engineering cost base and enhance overarching profitability.
  • Bid Support & Costing: Support corporate growth by assisting the Head of Engineering (HoE) with contract bid writing, ensuring all technical requirements are accurately scoped and comprehensively costed.
  • Management Frameworks & IT: Act as the ultimate manager of the department's internal reporting systems. Lead the management, tracking, and continuous improvement of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Performance Indicators (PIs), alongside the management and optimisation of the department's key management tools and IT systems.
  • Operational Cadence: Establish and maintain the daily and weekly operational rhythm of the engineering department, ensuring information flows seamlessly and bottlenecks are exposed early.
  • Executive Reporting: Consolidate complex engineering and financial metrics into accurate, seamless, and high-fidelity updates for the HoE and upwards to Group executives.

2. Strategic Planning, Fleet & Tactical Management

  • IPC Representation: Represent Engineering at the Integrated Planning Committee (IPC) level, ensuring the strategic and operational needs of engineering are met so the department can optimally support the company's output in achieving revenue and Gross Margin (GM) targets.
  • Fleet Planning: Lead the Fleet Planning department in overarching strategic and operational planning, providing leadership and direction while the delegated Fleet and Maintenance Manager executes the actual day-to-day management of the fleet plan.
  • Tactical Management & Engagement: Provide tactical management across the engineering departments and, where needed, lead supplier and customer engagement to resolve operational issues and drive favourable commercial outcomes.
  • Long-Term Budgeting: Oversee long-term departmental budgeting in relation to fleet planning, ensuring financial resources are accurately forecasted and allocated to support Business-as-Usual (BAU).

3. Training Pipeline & Support

  • Workforce Development: Head the engineering training pipeline to ensure the continuous development & competency of the engineering workforce.
  • Line Management: Provide direct line management and strategic direction to the Training and Compliance Manager, fostering a culture of continuous learning and operational readiness.
  • Policy, Procedures & AS9100 Compliance: Act as the principal driver for AS9100 compliance, internal policy management, and meticulous record-keeping within the Engineering HQ. Leveraging the direct line management of the Training and Compliance Manager, ensure that departmental procedures are strictly maintained and all records are robustly managed through Centrik to guarantee continuous audit readiness and regulatory adherence.

4. Project Management & Matrix Docking

  • Direct Project Leadership: Where necessary, take a lead role in the project management of specific tasks, ensuring critical engineering initiatives are directly managed and driven to successful completion.
  • PM Integration Focal Point: Serve as the central, singular "docking station" for internal and external Project Managers. Ensure that incoming project management staff are seamlessly integrated into the engineering workflow without disrupting the wider organisation.
  • Delivery Assurance: Monitor the progress of critical aircraft inputs, system upgrades, and modifications, ensuring technical teams are unblocked and staying aligned with agreed-upon delivery baselines.

5. Professional Coaching & Departmental Cohesion

  • Post Holder Alignment: Work in close and collaborative partnership with the Head of Maintenance (HoM) and Continuing Airworthiness Manager (CAM). As these are the Nominated Post Holders within the DEA Group, the Deputy Head must respect their regulatory boundaries and authority while providing robust commercial and operational support to ensure seamless delivery.
  • Commercial Coaching: Provide professional coaching and commercial mentorship to key tiers of engineering management, including the HoM, Maintenance Managers (MM), and CAM.
  • Culture & Standards: Act as the cultural anchor of the department, embedding a high-standard, proactive, and collaborative environment.
  • Deconfliction: Use diplomatic influence and exceptional interpersonal skills to deconflict competing priorities between continuing airworthiness, hangar production, capability delivery teams, and fleet planning.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

Essential:

  • Extensive leadership experience managing the operational delivery and commercial output of complex, high-tempo civil aviation engineering environments.
  • Strong commercial acumen with proven experience managing cost bases, pricing structures, long-term financial budgeting, and authoring/costing commercial bids.
  • Proven experience implementing, auditing, and running robust operational governance tools (Risk Registers, KPIs, Financial controls, Continuous Improvement frameworks, and IT management systems).
  • Demonstrated ability to provide professional and commercial mentorship to junior and senior leaders effectively.
  • Highly skilled at capturing complex operational information, resolving core issues, and engaging confidently with suppliers, customers, and executive committees.
  • High tolerance for ambiguity, with a proven ability to shape, define, and excel in a newly created role with evolving responsibilities.

Desirable:

  • Familiarity with UK CAA / EASA civil aviation regulations (Part-145, Part-CAMO, Part-21).
  • Prior experience overseeing aviation fleet planning, maintenance forecasting, or technical training pipelines.
  • Experience in operational environments utilising Standard Project Management, agile project management and Lean Tools and Techniques.
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Starling Bank

Full Stack Engineer (ML Ops)

London, UK
FinTech · Banking · Finance
A better bank for everyone
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Skills & Experience

Job roles: Full Stack
Experience level: Mid, Senior
Core skills considered: Java, React, Redux, AWS, JavaScript

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Base salary: £70K - £110K
Employment type: Permanent
Remote working: Hybrid (up to 2 remote days p/w)
Visa sponsorship: Not available

Job Description

Starling is the UK’s first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking! Our vision is fast technology, fair service, and honest values. All at the tap of a phone, all the time.

Starling is the UK’s first and leading digital bank on a mission to fix banking! We built a new kind of bank because we knew technology had the power to help people save, spend and manage their money in a new and transformative way.

We’re a fully licensed UK bank with the culture and spirit of a fast-moving, disruptive tech company. We’re a bank, but better: fairer, easier to use and designed to demystify money for everyone. We employ more than 3,000 people across our London, Southampton, Cardiff and Manchester offices.

Our technologists are at the very heart of Starling and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment that is all about building things, creating new stuff, and disruptive technology that keeps us on the cutting edge of fintech. We operate a flat structure to empower you to make decisions regardless of what your primary responsibilities may be, innovation and collaboration will be at the core of everything you do. Help is never far away in our open culture, you will find support in your team and from across the business, we are in this together!

The way to thrive and shine within Starling is to be a self-driven individual and be able to take full ownership of everything around you: From building things, designing, discovering, to sharing knowledge with your colleagues and making sure all processes are efficient and productive to deliver the best possible results for our customers. Our purpose is underpinned by five Starling values: Listen, Keep It Simple, Do The Right Thing, Own It, and Aim For Greatness.

Hybrid Working

We have a Hybrid approach to working here at Starling - our preference is that you're located within a commutable distance of one of our offices so that we're able to interact and collaborate in person. We don't like to mandate how much you visit the office and work from home, that's to be agreed upon between you and your manager.

Our Data Environment

Our Data teams are excited about the value of data within the business, powers our product decisions to improve things for our customers and enhance effective and agile decision making, regardless of what their primary tech stack may be. Hear from the team in our latest blogs or our case studies with Women in Tech.

We are looking for talented data professionals at all levels to join the team. We value people being engaged and caring about customers, caring about the code they write and the contribution they make to Starling. People with a broad ability to apply themselves to a multitude of problems and challenges, who can work across teams do great things here at Starling, to continue changing banking for good.

Requirements

We have built our entire banking platform in house and mostly in Java. We are looking for people who want to work on building the tooling that is used by our engineers on a daily basis.

We are looking for people who are truly full stack, and are as comfortable polishing their javascript front end as they are debugging the innards of their java applications database interactions, or standing up infrastructure with terraform. We are looking for people who can:

  • Design REST apis.
  • Code backend services, ideally using Java, or another other server side compiled language.
  • Develop modern front ends, ideally using React and Redux.
  • Get their code into the cloud and support it there, ideally on AWS.
  • Believe in clean coding, simple solutions, automated testing and continuous deployment.
  • Like to take ownership of a feature from the original idea through to live.
  • Think (like us) that a small number of empowered developers is the right way to deliver software.

Company Benefits

  • 33 days holiday (including flexible bank holidays)
  • An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
  • 16 hours paid volunteering time a year
  • Part-time and/or flexible hours available for most roles
  • Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
  • Life insurance at 4x your salary
  • Hybrid/remote working
  • Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton
  • Generous family-friendly policies
  • Varied social groups set up and run by our employees
  • Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
  • Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work, Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships and Electric Vehicle (EV) leasing

Full details are available on our careers site

Interview Process

Interviewing is a two way process and we want you to have the time and opportunity to get to know us, as much as we are getting to know you! Our interviews are conversational and we want to get the best from you, so come with questions and be curious. In general you can expect the below, following a chat with one of our Talent Team:

  • Stage 1 - 30 mins with one of the team
  • Stage 2 - Take home challenge
  • Stage 3 - 90 mins technical interview with two team members
  • Stage 3 - 45 min final with an executive and a member of the people team
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